Justin Cobbs scored 17 points, Richard Solomon got six of his 12 points down the stretch to help fuel a pivotal rally, and Cal beat Georgia Tech 68-57 on Friday night to advance to the championship game of the DirecTV Classic at Anaheim.

Allen Crabbe added 13 points and five assists for the Bears, who are off to a 5-0 start.

Cal's opponent in Sunday's title game will be Pacific, which beat St. Mary's 76-66 earlier Friday and topped Xavier 70-67 in Thursday's first-round game. The Bears got to the semifinal round with a 73-70 win over Drake.

Mfon Udofia had 16 points and Kammeon Holsey came off the bench to score 14 for Georgia Tech (3-1), which shot 39 percent from the field, was 2-of-15 from three-point range and was outrebounded 41-29.

Neither team led by more than six points during a fast-paced first half that ended with Cal leading 34-33 on Robert Thurman's buzzer-beating dunk - his first points of the game.

Crabbe's layup with 12:31 left in the game snapped a 42-all tie and triggered a 12-2 run that helped Cal pull away to a 54-44 lead with 8:09 remaining. Cobbs had a fast-break dunk after stealing the ball from Robert Carter Jr. just 37 seconds after Crabbe's basket, and freshman guard Tyrone Wallace - playing extra minutes because of Ricky Kreklow's foot injury - capped the deciding rally with a three-point play after Solomon made a layup and a pair of free throws.

Crabbe and Wallace helped put it away with three-pointers in the final 5:34 after the Bears had missed 11 of their first 12 attempts from behind the arc. Since the start of last season, Georgia Tech is 0-20 when trailing with 5 minutes remaining.

Cal scored the game's first six points and maintained its lead until Holsey pumped in nine straight Georgia Tech points in a 2:53 span to help the Yellow Jackets tie it at 17 with 10:48 left in the half.

A couple of sloppy turnovers by Cobbs and Crabbe on back-to-back possessions resulted in a go-ahead three-point play by Carter off a fast break. Another fast-break layup by Udofia gave Tech a 22-17 lead with 9:43 left before intermission and convinced Cal coach Mike Montgomery to call a much-needed timeout.

Cal is 3-0 all-time against Georgia Tech, with the other two meetings coming a day apart in December 1950.

PAC-12

Randle lifts Stanford

Chasson Randle broke out of a three-point shooting slump and scored 21 points to lead Stanford to a 66-50 victory over Northern Iowa in the consolation semifinals of the Battle 4 Atlantis in Paradise Island, Bahamas. ... Randle had a rough start to the season, making 3-of-22 from beyond the arc in the Cardinal's first five games. He finished 4-of-6 on Friday and made one with 8:12 left after Northern Iowa (3-2) closed to 49-45. ... "That's just me being me. It was in my own head," Randle said. "My teammates and coaches kept telling me to keep shooting. It was all up to me to start making shots." ... That started an 11-2 run that put the game away. Stanford was 8-for-19 from beyond the arc. ... "I give my guys credit for playing as they did in a game like this," Stanford coach Johnny Dawkins said. "In a tournament like this, it can be easy to have things snowball on you." ... Stanford (4-2) will meet Minnesota in the fifth-place game Saturday.

Arizona State 83, Arkansas 68:

Carrick Felix scored a career-high 24 points to lead the Sun Devils (4-0) past the Razorbacks (3-1) to reach the final of the Las Vegas Invitational.

Oregon 83, #18 UNLV 79:

Damyean Dotson scored a team-high 19 points, including a short jumper from the key, to give the Ducks (5-0) the lead for good in the semifinals of the Global Sports Classic in Las Vegas. ... The Runnin' Rebels (2-1) were led by Anthony Bennett with 22.

Utah 67, Central Michigan 51:

Jarred DuBois scored a season-best 20 points and Glen Dean added 13 to lead the host Utes (3-1). ... Derrick Richardson scored 10 points and was the only one in double figures for the Chippewas (2-2).

TOP 25

Michigan wins NIT

Tim Hardaway Jr. scored 23 points before he left late in the game after he was kneed in the head, and No. 4 Michigan (5-0) beat Kansas State 71-57 on to win the NIT Season Tipoff in New York.

BAY AREA

Pacific 76, Saint Mary's 66:

Lorenzo McCloud scored 18 points on 5-of-10 shooting including an 8-for-9 performance from the free-throw line, to lead the Tigers (3-2) in the semifinals of the DirecTV Classic in Anaheim. ... Matthew Dellavedova had 16 points for the Gaels (4-1).

WCC

Loyola Marymount 78, Texas State 63:

Anthony Ireland scored 23 points and Ashley Hamilton scored 13 points and grabbed 14 rebounds to help Loyola (3-2) defeat Texas State (2-3) in the consolation bracket of the Great Alaska Shootout in Anchorage.

Toledo 73, Santa Clara 48:

Ricki Radanovich scored 17 points and had four steals, but the Broncos (2-3) fell to the Rockets (3-1) in Reno.

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